Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-11
lie served in the Union army as surgeon
of the seventh Michigan cavalry

He served in the Union army as surgeon
of the seventh Michigan cavalry.
The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad
company has decided To build another
steamer to run on their line between Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Ludington. She
will be 225 feet long, As feet beam and
sixteen feet in the hold. She will cost
$50, 00).
BY the falling of an old bridge across
the canal in Grand Rapids Nicholas Leh-
man, a teamster, was fatally injured. lie
was struck on the breast by large builder
from his load. His ribs were crushed in
and he was injured internally. He was
20 years old and unmarried.
Mrs. Lucia Stowell of Little Hope,
Lenawee county, while temporary insane,
threw herself under a train on the Jack
son branch of the Lake shore road. The
body was horribly mangled, her head be-
ing crushed and her limbs nearly cut Off.
The unfortunate woman was 80 years old
The common council of Hudson has
voted $4,000 for opening highway on
the lands Of the Cincinnati, jackson *
Mackinaw in that village. This insures
the road to Hudson, as the $50, 900 asked
has already been subscribed and all that
was lacking was the 81, 600 just appropri-
| ated.
Sheriff COnklin of Bay county, offers a
reward Of $500 for the recovery of Geo.
Kepple body. Kepple, 1t will be remem-
bered, disappeared on the 18th of May.
| The sheriff also offers $500 for the con-
| yictiOn of the murderer, IL Kepple Is dead,
or $50 for proof that he Is living. He
hopes to unravel the mystery.
While Justice G. b. Dresser of Hills
dale was driving the other morning his
horse took fright and ran away He fell
from the carriage under a heavy loaded
wagon which passed over his body, and he
died from the injuries in a few minutes
Deceased was ~ years old, for 40 years IA
resident of Hillsdale and had held the Of
flee of Justice for nearly 30 years. He was
highly respected. widow, two sons and
a daughter survive him.
J. 5. Barclay, proprietor of the Wolver-
| ton house in Bay City, is dead. lie was
10 years old. lie came to ''Lower Sagi-
nav, now Bay City, in 1919, and opened
the second store in the place. He was
sheriff in the county from 1856 to 1861,
and for the past ID years has been proprie-
tor Of the WOlverton house. In early
| days he traded extensively with the In
dianS, and also ran stage tine from Bay
City to East Saginaw. He had accumu-
lated considerable property.
Alfred Il. Mcclellan. Young man ar
rested on suspicion by Detectives McDon-
nell and Noble in Detroit the other day,
turns to be an escaped convict from the
lonia house of correction. In 1854 Me
Lellan, who halls from Monroe, was sem
fenced to three years in that institution
for grand larceny, but escaped one year
later and fled to Canada. He returned a
short time ago and shipped as deck hand
on the steamer City of Cleveland. where
the Detroit officers found him. Mcclellan
has been returned to lonia.
The state crop report for the last week in
July says that corn and potatoes are suffer
ing very severely from high temperature
and lack of rain. Corn Is curingup all over
the state and potatoes won't Yield over
two-thirds the average unless a change
occurs with heavy rains. Pastures are
dried up and burned. Glangis, Allegan
county, reports the peaches shriveling and
dropping from the trees. Large crop of
apples and pears in Oceana county. Clare
and GeneSee counties report frost on the
2Sd ult., with slight damage.
George IIawley of Collins, was return
ing home from Lyons a few nights ago,
walking down the track of the Detroit,
Lansing Il Northern railroad. When near
the DOugherty crossing passenger tain
struck him, stringing his remains along
the track for about 40 rods. His head
was severed from his body. his legs cut in
pieces and strung along the track, while
his heart, liver and iniestines were scat
tered rods apart When he left Lyons
about . o'clock he was strongly under the
influence of liquor, having drank more Or
less all day.
A branch of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad will be built from Felch
mountains to Republic. This sbortens the
distance between the copper regions and
Chicago. The Milwaukee, ~ Northern ex-
tension between Iron Mountain and Re-
public will soon be in running order, and
the Milwaukee IL Northern will be ex-
tended to Champion next year, and ulti-
mately to lshpeming and Marquette.
Through trains on the Duluth, South
Shore IL Atlantic from Ashland tn the
Sault will be running by the beginning Of
next year, it is thought